Re: Cygwin + git log = no pager!

On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 1:39 AM, Chris Packham [off-list ref] wrote:

On 22/02/14 18:18, Robert Dailey wrote:

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So it seems that the pager doesn't work by default when running `git
log` from Cygwin like it does in msysgit for Windows.

I know I can pipe to `less` but that requires the additional typing
obviously. Does anyone know how I can get the pager to work in Cygwin
for git log, reflog, and other commands like it does in msysgit?

Thanks in advance.

Add GIT_PAGER=less to your environment. I don't know if you were using
the cygwin packaged git or building from source but I'm surprised the
pager is not set by default as you actually have to define the use of
something other than less.

Thanks for the response. I did set this environment variable in my
.bashrc like so:

export GIT_PAGER=less

However after I do a 'git log' it is just spitting it out all at once
and not entering the pager.